Ok, this may be the most indulgent part of my web page, but there is really an outside chance people are interested in what I'm reading. I have these books linked to Amazon.com. I have mixed feelings about them. I generally don't buy from them because I feel they are helping to kill the independent booksellers. On the other hand, I do use them for reviews when I'm considering buying a book, and I've written a few reviews myself. By the way I used to list these with the newest books on the bottom; I've reversed that now.
This Just In: I'm sure I'm not alone in this but I make all sorts of references from classic books I haven't read. I keep thinking I need to read them, and I've started a list at the bottom of this page. I don't have them linked to Amazon as I imagine they are books everyone knows about.
On Deck Circle
Current Reads
Recent Reads:
2008
- Too Soon To Say Goodbye by Art Buchwald
- The Happiest Days of Our Lives by Wil Wheaton
- Old Men Dream by Peter Fullerton
- Still Life With Crows by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
- Beyond the White House: Waging Peace, Fighting Disease, Building Hope by Jimmy Carter
- Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriett Beacher Stowe
- God in the White House: How Faith Shaped the Presidency from John F. Kennedy to George W. Bush by Randall Balmer
- Teresa of Avila: The Interior Castle translated by Kieran Kavanaugh, OCD
- 90 Minutes in Heaven: An Inspiring Story of Life Beyond Death by Don Piper and Cecil Murphy
- Sword Song by Bernard Cornwell
- Emporer: Time's Tapestry Book One by Stephen Baxter
- People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
- Harold the King by Helen Hollick
2007
- Naked in Baghdad: The Iraq War and the Aftermath as Seen by NPR's Correspondent Anne Garrels by Anne Garrels and Vint Lawrence
- I Live For This: Baseball's Last True Believer by Tommy Lasorda and Bill Plaschke
- Man's Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl
- World Without End by Ken Follett
- A Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Quest to follow the Bible as Literally as Possible by A.J. Jacobs
- No Time For Goodbye by Linwood Barclay
- A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
- Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
- Lords of the North by Bernard Cornwell
- New Seeds of Contemplation by Thomas Merton
- The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling
- Is This a Great Game or What? by Tim Kurkjian
- Genghis: Birth Of An Empire by Conn Iggulden
- The Wrong Stuff: The Extraordinary Saga of Randy "Duke" Cunningham, The Most Corrupt Congressman Ever Caught by Marcus Stern, Jerry Kammer, Dean Calbreth, and George E. Condon, Jr.
- The Rosetti Letter by Christi Phillips
- Marley and Me by John Grogan
- Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson
- Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil by Deborah Rodriquez
- The God of Animals by Aryn Kyle
- About My Sisters by Debra Ginsberg
- The Death and Life of Bobby Z by Don Winslow
- My Seven Years in Captivity: Tails and Misadventures in the San Diego Zoo by Bill Seaton
- The Rebels of Ireland by Edward Rutherfurd
- Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid by Jimmy Carter
- Waiting: The True Confessions of a Waitress by Debra Ginsberg
- The Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson
- A History of the End of the World by Jonathon Kirsch
- Flu by Gina Kolata
- The Archer's Tale by Bernard Cornwell
2006
- Sons of Fortune by Jeffrey Archer
- Selected Writings in Anglo-Saxon Spirituality by Robert Boenig
- Heat by Bill Buford
- Digging to America by Ann Tyler
- The Great Transformation by Karen Armstrong
- Paris 1919 by Margaret MacMillan
- Absolute Convictions by Eyan Press
- A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
- Round Ireland With a Fridge by Tony Hawks
- Scarred by Struggle, Transformed by Hope by Joan Chichester
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
- A Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell
- Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
2005
- A History of God: The 4000 Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam by Karen Armstrong
- Teacher Man by Frank McCourt
- Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen by Julie Powell
- The Life of Pi by Yann Martel
- Our Endangered Values by Jimmy Carter
- Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: And Other Things I've Learned by Alan Alda
- War Powers: How the Imperial Presidency Hijacked the Constitution by Peter Irons
- The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Ann Fadiman
- Ithaka by Adèle Geras
- Through the Narrow Gate by Karen Armstrong
- The Patriots Club by Christopher Reich
- Heloise and Abelard: A New Biography by James Burge
- The Old Ball Game: How John McGraw, Christy Mathewson, and the New York Giants Created Modern Baseball by Frank DeFord (note: this is autographed; I met Frank at the Los Angeles Times Book Festival in April 2005).
- Marshall's Journey by Vailia Dennis
- Dear Senator by Essie Mae Washington-Williams and William Stadiem
- The Source by James Michener. (note: this was a re-read; I read it for the first time around 1992 or so).
- Mountains Beyond Mountans by Tracy Kidder
- The Last Kingdom by Bernard Cornwell
- Encore Provence: New Adventures in the South of France by Peter Mayle
- Just a Geek by Wil Wheaton
- The Last Season: A Team In Search Of Its Soul by Phil Jackson and Michael Arkush
- A Good Year by Peter Mayle
- Stonehenge by Bernard Cornwell
- Ball Four by Jim Bouton
- Eats, Shoots, and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynn Truss
- Letter From Home by Carolyn Hart
- Skipping Christmas by John Grisham
- A Short History of Nearly Everthing by Bill Bryson
- Hanging Curve by Troy Soos
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Michael Haddon
- Fat Man Fed Up by Jack Germond
- The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien
- Bleachers by John Grisham
- How Few Remain by Harry Turtledove
- Good Grief by Lolly Winston
- The Princes of Ireland by Edward Rutherfurd
- The Amature Marriage by Anne Tyler
- The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton
- Brinkley's Beat:People, Places, and Events That Shaped My Life by David Brinkley
- Krakatoa by Simon Winchester
- Dragon's Lair by Sharon Kay Penman
- Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right by Al Franken
- The Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom
- The Pleasure of My Company by Steve Martin
- Jester by James Patterson
- The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown
- Moneyball by Michael Lewis
- Beyond Belief by Elaine Pagels
- Patrick by Stephen R. Lawhead
- The Ragamuffin Gospel by Brennan Manning
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
- Why is the Foul Pole Fair? by Vince Staten
- The Words We Live By: Your Annotated Guide to the Constitution by Linda Monk
- Merlin by Stephen R. Lawhead
- The Accidental Pope by Ray Flynn and Robin More
- Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain
- The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson
- Hotel Kid: A Times Square Childhood by Stephen Lewis
- Summerland by Michael Chabon
- Hawaii by James Michener
- Founding Brothers by Joseph Ellis
- A Grace Disguised by Gerald L. Sittser
- Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews: A History by James Carroll
- John Adams by David McCullough
- The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse: a Novel by Louise Erdrich.
- Sarah: Woman of Genesis by Orson Scott Card.
- WITSEC: Inside the Federal Witness Protection Program by Pete Earley and Gerald Shur.
- Time and Chance by Sharon Kay Penman
- Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
- Nickled and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich.
Classics I feel I should read:
- The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
- Moby Dick by Herman Melville (I tried to read this in college and gave up after about 100 pages)
